Maputo News
Single UNIVISA for southern Africa?
Officials met in Maputo in mid-April to discuss the introduction of a single tourist visa for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) ahead of the FIFA World Cup tournament in South Africa i...
Maputo News
Biometric passports for Mozambique
The Mozambican immigration authorities have now started issuing biometric passports, which contain a microchip containing personal data to identify the holder.
This follows a short delay of about...
Maputo News
New Mozambique-South Africa one-stop border post
The one-stop border post (OSBP) at Lebombo-Ressano Garcia on the Mozambique-South Africa boundary is to be ready for the start of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa in June, the general director of Mo...
Maputo News
National child health week in Mozambique
National child health week begins in Mozambique on 12 April with a new emphasis on maternal health as well as the health of children.
During the five-day campaign health workers are targeting thre...
Maputo News
The port of Maputo is expected to process almost nine million tonnes of cargo in 2010, over 26 million tonnes a year by 2015 and almost 50 million tonnes a year by 2030 according to a report on the de...
Maputo News
Mozambique battles cholera and floods
Over 40 people are now known to have died from an outbreak of cholera in Mozambique
Maputo News
Maputo water system to be improved
The government has announced five major projects to improve the water supply system in the Greater Maputo area. The works will affect the capital and the neighbouring towns of Matola and Boane.
Co...
Maputo News
Science and technology park for Mozambique
Work is underway to build a science and technology park in Maluana in Manhica district, about 80 km north of Maputo. The facility is the first of four such parks planned for Mozambique under the gover...
Maputo News
The Maputo public transport company TPM is to take delivery of 50 new buses starting in February in a bid to improve services in and around the city. The consignment will take to 195 the number of TPM...
Maputo News
Large parts of Maputo flooded on 27 January as a result of sudden heavy rain, the Mozambican news agency AIM reports.
The National Disaster Management Institute (INGC) has said that the flooding af...
Maputo News
Maputo to Brazil direct flights
Direct flights to Brazil will be available from Maputo by mid 2010, according to Macauhub online. A spokesman from Mozambique
Maputo News
Mozambique parliament opens to protests
The new Mozambique parliament has elected its first woman speaker. Veronica Macamo, who was previously vice speaker, was voted in unopposed after the main opposition party Renamo failed to put forward...
Maputo News
Maputo gets jobs from foreign investment
In the first nine months of 2009 Mozambique gave the go-ahead to 78 private investment projects in the country worth nearly $US 700 million; 60 per cent of the total investment came from foreign inves...
Maputo News
New traffic laws in Mozambique
New traffoic regulations came into force on 8 December 2009 in a bid to improve safety on Mozambique
Maputo News
Expatriates in Mozambique will soon have access to a new private medical clinic in Maputo.
The Maputo Trauma Centre and Well Woman Clinic is located in Avenida Julius Nyerere and is scheduled to op...
Maputo News
Guebuza returned to power in Mozambique elections
Incumbent president Armando Guebuza of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) has won an overwhelming victory in Mozambique
Maputo News
Turtle nesting season begins in Mozambique
Turtle season is officially underway in Mozambique and local animal protection groups are making their usual call for people to help guarantee optimum conditions for nesting and hatching.
On 7 Nov...
Maputo News
Mozambique wins Manhattan film award
Alcides Soares, aged 16, has won the best documentary award at the annual Manhattan Short film festival for his film Mozambique about AIDS orphans in the country.
In his film Soares tells his own s...
Maputo News
Maputo stadium not ready for World Cup
The new 42,000-seat stadium under construction in Zimpeto north of the capital will not be ready in time for next year
Maputo News
The Bank of Mozambique has abolished a series of charges for basic banking services as part of efforts to protect consumers.
Under the new rules commercial banks can no longer charge customers for...
Maputo News
Italian restaurant opens in Maputo
A restaurant serving Italian food has opened at the four-star Hotel Cardoso in Maputo. Fiamma (meaning
Maputo News
The 45th edition of the Maputo International Trade Fair (Facim) will take place from 31 August to 6 September. Businesses especially from the southern African region will come together in the Mozambic...
Maputo News
Adil Water World to open in Maputo.
A new tourism development is to open outside Maputo in December, South Africa tourism and travel magazine
Maputo News
Staff from the optometry departments at Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) and the University of Ulster (UU) are to set up an optometry school at the new public L
Maputo News
Kayum centre goes up in smoke.
Fire has destroyed part of the Kayum Centre, a large shop in central Maputo specialising in electrical appliances, local news sources report.
The fire broke out in the shop
Maputo News
Matola Kings Village near Maputo.
The industrial town of Matola near Maputo is getting a new residential and commercial complex called
Maputo News
Official opening of new Zambezi bridge.
The new bridge spanning the mighty Zambezi river and linking the central coastal Sofala and Zambezia provinces is due to be officially opened on 10 July according to the June newsletter of the develop...
